Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides January 22, 2026 show is a Flashback to the June 10, 1999 show featuring many times Mayor Mike Rotkin in an on-air discussion/debate with Bathrobespierre Robert over the City’s anti-homeless Sleeping Ban

The January 22, 2026 show is a Flashback to June 10, 1999. 

It includes:

  • Oakland’s Loitering law thrown out; recent Supreme Court loitering decision.
  • Ft. Lauderdale’s Steps to Ban Panhandling
  • Philadelphia studying “how to deal”with homeless panhandlers
  • Vigorous in-studio exchange with Councilmember Mike Rotkin, inveterate Sleeping Ban defender

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides January 18, 2026 show–features forums and updates from the California Homeless Union reps + a Flashback to June 13, 1999 with a wide range of reports, attorney Catnip Kate, poet Laura, & J. Baer on the Seaside Co.

The January 18, 2026 show includes:

  • Video of the 10 Year Anniversary of the Salinas/Monterey County, Re-Establishment of the National Union of the Homeless at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LGkeZsBR_Q
  • Alicia Kuhl, Santa Cruz Homeless Union [SCHU] activist, summarizes the S.C. struggle
  • Two San Luis Obispo activists emphasize their litany of woe & future dangers ahead
  • [throughout] Rovics & AI Tsuno sing & comment on “Guerrilla Radio Yearender 2026”
  • Sacramento Union pushes back against shelter waste in-and-out racket, taking over property; Sharon Jones on Camp Resolution’s fight to protect its residents
  • Gilroy’s Robert Aguirre on voter, financial  and court initiatives to empower 
  • Wes White on the Salinas Union’s tactics for fighting back
  • Attorney Anthony Prince on the importance of the encampments
  • Canadian Dr. Diedra Noonan in Gaza: https://broadview.org/canadian-doctor-gaza/
  • Legal panels at the event
  • Guerrilla Radio: John Helmer on All Things Russia in Feb 2025

The Flashback to June 13, 1999 includes among many other items:

  • Attorney “Catnip” Kate Wells using the Flory-Edwards-Jacobs defense for Dennis Rehm, the Steve Argue case
  • Edward deBolt on unfair management at the homeless shelters 
  • Costly overruns on the SCPD’s new police station
  • Sit-in to force Mayor Beiers to hold a public meeting with Rep Farr on U.S. bombing in Kosovo.
  • Katya Komissarack and Mike on alternate CD training
  • Downtown Association, Attorney Tony Bole, and Laura the Poet
  • Jane Baer’s Beach Flats Update
  • Daryl Williams on San Jose’s Citizen’s Tribunal

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides January 15, 2026 show is a Flashback to the June 6, 1999 show featuring Kosovo commentary, Roxanne Acquistepache on the “Progressive” Sell-Out of the Beach Flats, and more

The January 15, 2026 show is a Flashback to June 6, 1999. 

It includes [some of the accounts are fuzzy & hard-to-hear]

  • Gay Pride Day festivities and cautions: the trollbuster + Sleeping Ban Perfect Storm
  • Closer look at SCPD two assaults and arrests of “Steadfast”  Steve Argue for selling Street Spirit newspaper and defending a woman and her child in a protest; deconstruction of Councilmember “Riot Act” Rotkin’s public statements on the issue.
  • Terry Johnston, homeless gay man with serious HIV condition, describes how his sister lured him across the country into a coercive intervention.
  • Trollbuster assaults including Joe Barker’s account of his beating.
  • In-studio guest Roxanne Acquistepache, Beach Flats activist and resident, on the new City Council sell-out of residents there—extensive analysis & sharp critique
  • Caller and Beach Flats resident and landlord Jane Baer on City pressure on SCAN to create the Dolphin-Lee/Mercy Housing project in the Beach Flats
  • Roxanne calls for Take Back movement to restore the Beach Flats neighborhood to its residents.
  • Bathrobespierre on Homeless Services Center, City Council, and Councilmember Krohn’s ducking of the Sleeping Ban issue.
  • “Landfill Colony Faces Eviction”—the Albany struggle.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides January 11, 2026 show–Interviews aplenty with Lighthouse Linda, “Captain America”, “Ramblin’ Jack”, and Whipmaster Wes White

The January 11, 2026 show includes:

  • [1-8-26] Organizer Wes White briefs HUFF activists on his upcoming Salinas 10th Anniversary of the Salinas Homeless Union and the Reactivation of the National Homeless Union particularly in California.  Agenda of the 10th Anniversary event
  • [throughout] Rovics’ Ai Tsuno music and commentary
  • “Homelessness: Mayor Mahan Shift of Funds from Permanent Homes to Interim Housing has Sparked Debate Among Advocates from Encampments to Temporary Shelters
  • Doctor Suzie & Captain Max and the BiNobos: The Binobo Way
  • https://thestreetspirit.org/2026/01/06/in-dialogue-with-osha-neumann/
  • “Scope it Out” Scott Graham on the upcoming (1-13-26) Santa Cruz Shitty Council agenda
  • “Lighthouse” Linda Lemaster recalls her early days of homeless activism in the late 70’s—the Scotts Creek Bluff arrests and resistance
  • [1-6]  “Captain America” back from Los Angeles with a report from there and here
  • Risible Reflections from “Ramblin’ Jack”, the Mel-anious Marauder, Shane, Wolf, “Cover-Up” Craig.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides January 8, 2026 show is a Flashback to the complete March 25, 1999 show with interviews from Jackhammer John Vance, of Berkeley, ‘Nuf Said Nancy McCradie of Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz Streetstalkers Bob and Vinnie

The 1-8-26 show is a Flashback to March 25, 1999 which includes:

  • Harassment and verbal abuse by a passing squad car near the Homeless [Lack of] Services Center {HLOSC}
  • “Jackhammer” John Vance, Berkeley  activist and street button vendor on police crackdown in the “4th Block”
  • City Council buries Sleeping Ban Reform
  • V-Man’s court report and Bathrobepierre’s court advice
  • Beggarbacker Becky Johnson remembers Stickman Bruce Jenkins, recently died.
  • B.E. Smith’s cannabis defense strategies applied to Sleeping Ban Cases
  • In Ray Acosta’s trailer with a Monterey “homeless program” report
  • Bob Lamonica vs. Vinnie Lombardo: Different Roads to Breakthrough Bureaucracy
  • Joseph Nasworthy and other outside voices
  • Mardi Wormhaudt vetoes County Safe Sleeping Zone
  • “’Nuf Said’ Nancy McCradie on the Santa Barbara Sleeping Ban

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides January 4, 2026 show– Rainy Day Ruminations at the Town Clock plus a Flashback to February 4, 1999 chronicling the slow suffocation of Sleeping Ban Reform via City Council’s Task Force under police misinformation

The January 4, 2026 show includes: [volume varies abruptly]

The February 4, 1999 Flashback includes:

  • Police “accountability” at City Council’s Task Force to [Retain] the Camping Ordinance—Deputy Chief Jeff Locke, V-Man, Becky, Bernard, and Bathrobespierre.
  • Street Spirit hawker Phil on oppressive rules at the Natl Guard Armory Winter Shelter
  • Territh of Feed the People on the cold crisis
  • Joanna, trailer tenant & sojourner in Dominican & Harbor Hills 
  • Spotlighting the Beiers Betrayal—Bathrobe & Silva on the Advisory bodies Retreat

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides January 1, 2026 show is a Flashback to the complete June 15, 2011 show with many interviews from Aug 8-10, 2010 during the high point of the Peace Camp 2010 protests for Blindbear Robert Facer and those outside

The January 1, 2026 show is a Flashback to  the complete June 15, 2011 show which includes:

  • Interviews from August 7-9, 2010 at last year’s PeaceCamp 2010: Bob with Dipshit the Dog, Crew the Lodger and Red the Lodgeress, Lighthouse Linda, Max, Curbhugger Chris
  • [Throughout]“Then and Now” Reverberations from 2011 looking back on 2010 re: Sleeping Ban reforms & 2010 Court cases
  • Kristian Williams  “Torture and the Logic of Domination”  Summer 2011 Slingshot
  • “Congress Eyes Purse Strings Over Libya”, “Obama Wins Nobel War Prize”
  • U.S. Mayor’s Resolution Against National War Spending in Iraq and Afghanistan $126 billion per year
  • Comments at the Courthouse in the Petitioning to Free Ed Frey & Gary Johnson, facing 6 months in jail for Sleep Protest
  • Crow’s morning vigil at Courthouse demanding Frey be released

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides December 28, 2025 show– Homeless Deaths 2025 Street Memorial and a Flashback to Jan 28, 1999 on the City Council’s Task Farce to Divert Opposition to the Sleeping Ban

The December 28, 2025 show includes:

The Flashback to January 28, 1999 includes: [some distortion in first half of show]

  • Bathrobe’s update on the latest Task Farce to Examine the Camping Ordinance sub-committee meetings
  • Oral Communications with the Task Farce: Bernard Klitzner, Peter Eberle, Kate Wells, David Silva, Linda LeMaster, Emily Riley, Paul Brindel, Robert Norse
  • Becky Johnson on the Homeless Services Center Board of Directors meeting
  • Controversy around Kitten Reynolds alleged snitching, surveillance, and sabotage on local homeless activists
  • Silva calls for “positive” approach to upcoming Task Farce meetings
  • Norse reads most of the Eichorn decision requiring courts to consider a necessity defense in Camping Ban cases

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides December 25th, 2025 show is a Flashback to the complete January 24, 1999 show featuring the Silva, Norse, and Johnson on Council’s diversion & dissection of the Camping Ban, Perusha Obluda on Palo Alto’s Anti-Homeless laws

The Thursday December 25, 2025 show is a Flashback to January 24, 1999. 

It includes:

  • S.F. Chronicle article 1-22-99 “Palo Alto Sets Up Cart Swap”
  • Palo Alto civil right activist and KKUP broadcaster Purush Obluda Interview on proposed attack on homeless people pushing corporate shopping carts
  • “Feed the People” activist Teara on her 1st S.C. sleeping ticket; 2nd hand reports of 7 with bats attacking homeless
  • Terra and Bathrobespierre discuss federal court prospects around Sleeping Ban rulings & City Council’s latest
  • Committee to Repeal the Sleeping Ban visits the Task Farce to Protect the Ban (aka Task Force to Examine the Camping Ordinance) featuring Vice-Chief Jeff Locke, “Sticky Fingers” Butchie Baker, & Council Cucks
  • “Dead On” David Silva reports on upcoming right-wing agenda and urges sweet talk to City Council.
  • Further examination of police case for retaining the Ban vs. activist urging restoration of basic right to sleep.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides December 21, 2025 show– Many 1996 Flashbacks–to March S.C. City Council and May Food Not Bombs protests in San Francisco plus a full show from 4-1-96 with Sean Alemi, Gary Yamene, Keith McHenry, James Cosner, & more

The December 21, 2025 show contains:

  • [throughout] Rovics and Ai Tsuno Class War Zone
  • [3-12-96] Unhoused protesters speak to City Council and the Community at Oral Communications at the beginning of the City Hall Sleepers Vigil
  • Testimony by Dan Hopkins, Henry Kettleman, James Cosner, Tim Rinker, Chad, Sean Alemi, Ron Parker, John Stuart, Cole Larsen, Chris Brozda, Robert Norse at the 3-15 closing of the Winter Armory Shelter
  • https://news.antiwar.com/2025/12/17/bill-to-block-trump-from-launching-war-with-venezuela-fails-in-the-house/
  • [June 1996] Interviews and speeches at San Francisco Hall of Justice at Bathrobespierre’s Sentencing Hearing: Becky Johnson, Bob Hansen, D.A. Terrence Hallinan, Pat Carey, Bathrobespierre, Keith McHenry, Karen Parker
  • [12-18-25] HUFF  meeting segment discussing protest/encampment demanding winter shelter, restored services

The Flashback April 1, 1996 show contains:

  • Chat with a free knive sharpener on Pacific Ave.
  • Slammersleeper Sean Alemi from Ward A in the Jail
  • Robin Hood’s account of his last 3 years from Mothercare to Back Forty
  • Beggarbacker Becky on the Citizens Committee [to exploit] the Homeless shutting down recording their meetings
  • [3-29-96] Mall musings: Patrick criticizes Priscilla, Café Pergolesi manager for pregnancy discrimination; Bill displaying crystals & handling Hosts; Chink Bob Lee street jeweler; Sergeants Seiley and Sanderson confront man with dog on the mall; Alexa vandweller and brownie distributor busted;
  • Gary Yamene, Citizens Police Review Board staffer interviewed on the Complaint Tracking Process Committee reviewing SCPD General Orders segregating and secreting complaints under an “inquiry” category.
  • “Justman” Jim Cosner of the Revolutionary Coalition on the sentencing hearing of David Dumars (“B.D.”) for standing near a vandalized newsrack.
  • “Dragonsheart” Dan Hopkins reports on the B.D. hearing.  Keith’s expanded FNB  report
  • [4-1]  “Katzenjammer” Keith McHenry on Fresno gathering of Food Not Bombs [FNB]; harassment in Whittier, NYC, Arcata; new groups in San Bernadino, San Diego, Costa Mesa; detailed San Francisco report.